{"id":601406,"date":"2026-05-19T07:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/republican-lawmakers-call-for-permanent-cbdc-ban-as-house-vote-approaches\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:53:01","slug":"republican-lawmakers-call-for-permanent-cbdc-ban-as-house-vote-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/republican-lawmakers-call-for-permanent-cbdc-ban-as-house-vote-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican lawmakers call for permanent CBDC ban as House vote approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Emmer, the House majority whip, is also advocating for his Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which has passed the House but has yet to pass the Senate.<\/p>\n

A pair of Republican lawmakers is calling for a permanent ban on a US central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be enshrined in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, as the measure is expected to come up for a vote in the US House this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bill released by the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs<\/a> in March mainly<\/a> concerns revisions to federal housing programs but also includes a section banning the Federal Reserve System or any Federal Reserve bank from issuing a CBDC or similar instrument until Dec. 31, 2030.<\/p>\n

The US House has created its own amended bill, which Congressman Mike Flood said<\/a> reverses the \u201cbackdoor green light for a CBDC\u201d and aims to make the ban permanent.<\/p>\n

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Tom Emmer, the House majority whip, is also advocating for his Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which has passed the House but has yet to pass the Senate. A pair of Republican lawmakers is calling for a permanent ban on a US central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be enshrined in the 21st Century ROAD to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-601406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}